Auxiliary steering device for vessels



(No Model.)

O. D. WOOLEY.

AUXILIARY STEERING DEVICE FOR VESSELS. No. 396,186.

Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES DARIUS \VOOLEY, OF \VA'LDEN, NE\V YORK.

AUXILIARY STEERING DEVICE FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,186, dated January 15, 1889.

Application filed April 3, 1888. Serial No. 269,414. (No model.)

T0 [11 whom it may concern.-

Be itkuown that 1, CHARLES DARIUS \VOOLEY, of lValden, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Auxiliary Steering Devices for Marine Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide marine vessels with, in addition to their ordinary rudders, an auxiliary steering device which can be readily arranged for use in case of accident to the main steering-gear or any other emergency, will efficiently perform its work, and when not required can be easily and completely m'thdrawn within the vessel.

The invention consists of anovel construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as distinctly claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side sectional. elevation of the rear part of a vessel provided with an auxiliary steeringgear embodying my improvement; and Fig. 2' is a cross-sectional elemtion of the same on the line 00 m, Fig. 1.

The vessel A, which may be provided with an ordinary stern rudder and with any means of propulsion, is formed with a longitudinal downwardly-opening recess, B, extending upward from the rear part of the keel or keelson a distance, and of a width to receive completely a rudder, O.

The rudder C is fixed, preferably, at its middle to balance it to a round post, 1), which is mounted to slide vertically in a water-tight well, E, stationed within the rear part of the vessel, the walls of the recess B being also water-tight, so as to prevent leakage into the interior of the vessel.

The upper end of the post-D is provided with a tiller, D, or equivalent device for turning it, and with an upward-proj ectingthreaded extension, F, which is mounted to slide loosely in a fixed guide, G, and on which, above the guide G, is mounted a correspondingly-threaded nut, H, the arrangement being such that by properly working the nut the rudder can be retractedwholly within its recess 13 or projected completely below the vessels bottom, so that it can be turned to control the vessels course at will.

The lower end of the postD projects below the rudder and carries fixed collars J and K, between which, on the post, is mounted a loose sleeve, L, formed with an eye-lug or eye-lugs, to which is pivoted the outer end of a brace, N, the inner end of which is slotted longitudinally to receive a transverse pin, 0, fixed within a downwardly-opening recess, P, in the vessels bottom.

The recess P forms a forward continuation of the rudder-recess B, is water-tightlike the same, and is arranged to receive completely the rudder-brace N when the rudder is retracted, the brace riding lengthwise on its pivotal pin 0. The brace N, when the rudder is lowered, thus serves to stiffen the same against displacement, while allowing it to be turned freely.

It is evident that the arrangement described may be greatly varied without departing from the essential features of my invention, as pointed out in the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the round rudderpost D, screw-threaded at its upper end and v having a rudder 011 its lower end, of the adj usting-nut on said threaded portion, and the tiller 1),, fixedly secured to the post at the juncture of the threaded and non-threaded portions.

2. The combination, with a marine vessel having downwardly opening rudder and brace-receiving recesses in its bottom, of a vertical]y-adjustable rudder-post carrying a rudder and projecting below the same, a loose sleeve on the said projecting end of the rudder-post, and a brace pivotally connected to said sleeve and to a pin or part within the brace-recess, substantially as described.

CHARLES DARIUS \VOOLEY.

Vitnesses:

JOHN S. TAYLOR, I. M. STEPHENSON. 

